Word: sloganism
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Another Japanese general, surrendering in the central Philippines, defiantly quoted a medieval Japanese slogan: "Shall I die, I shall live again - and again seven times to fight again - swears the warrior...
Rift in the Ranks? Against fusion and Nenni were the highly respected right-wing Socialist delegates, Giuseppe Saragat (proletarian in suspenders and a cheap cotton shirt open at the neck) and Novelist Ignazio Silone (Fontamara). Cried Saragat: "It is not by chance that the slogan of 'fusion' is launched simultaneously from Norway to Italy. . . . Russia seeks guarantees for herself through territorial conquest and creation of buffer states. ... If socialism renounces its complete autonomy, the interests of the working class will be subordinated to the interest of one state. ... To speak of fusion ... is to cause a possible rift...
...Chicago, some retailers think they now know that high-school students prefer colored toothpaste, eat three times as many candy bars as their parents, heed Lifebuoy's "B.O." slogan oftener than Ivory's "It Floats." This and other sales-stimulating information is the merchandise they buy from Chicago's newest pollster: pollster" jive-jumping Eugene Gilbert, president of Gil-Bert Teen Age Services...
Decline of a Slogan. The declaration was the work of a Big Three meeting. But it was not a Big Three document. It was, above all, a U.S. document...
Experience demonstrated that unconditional surrender had more meaning as a slogan than as a practical rule at the point of victory. Italy's surrender was based on specific conditions (still secret). Even Germany's surrender, when victors and losers got down to cases at Reims and Berlin, entailed some immediate terms...